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Reinventing computer interaction with Con10uum

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We are all content to interact with mice and touch screens every day, but there are people out there who are working to improve the way we interact with hardware. This remarkable video highlights the limitations with our current interface technology - mice and touch screens - and demonstrates what appears to be ground-breaking ideas for better i...

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Up-coming Firefox 3.6 can detect your orientation

Those clever people over at Mozilla have unveiled a new device API for the impending Firefox 3.6 release. The tool will detect your orientation (screen orientation, not sexual orientation :-) and move the contents in the browser accordingly as shown the video below. Originally meant for the up-coming Firefox mobile browser, the API will now be a...

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Pepsi releases and apologies for iPhone app that denigrates women

Pepsis' free 'Amp Up before you score' iPhone application has drawn a lot of criticism as it encourages men to share their sexual conquests online. The app is basically an electronic wingman, giving you advice on what to say and how to act, all aimed at having - as the advert says - "a successful night" (interpret that as you will). ...

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Nasty bug hits Apple Snow Leopard users

As far as software bugs go, this one is monumental. Neowin is reporting that a new bug in Apple's latest Operating System - Snow Leopard - will cause users to loose all their data. Apparently this isn't just personal settings and preferences, it's actually all data including documents, photos, videos, music and more. The problem occurs when a us...

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We've changed a few things

Howdy y'all, welcome to version 7. A lot has changed, and you'll notice everything is a little more streamlined as well as for the first time in a few years, we're using a fixed width design. If anything looks out of place or doesn't seem right, try refreshing the page a few times. I've done testing in Firefox, Chrome, IE7, IE8, and although ...

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I can has kiddie porn?

This could be, depending on how you look at it, either the most creative or the lamest defence ever devised. A man arrested for possessing more than 1000 child pornography images on his PC says his it wasn't him, it was his cat. Keith Griffin says his cat jumped on the keyboard when he left the room and 'strange things' appeared on the computer ...

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Ignorant parents guilty of killing daughter in prayer death case

As you may recall from last year, 11 year old Madeline Kara died from a treatable form of diabetes because she was unlucky enough to be born to a pair of ignorant superstitious luddites. Madeline's parents thought that praying to God would be more effective than seeking medical help, and over a 30 day period she suffered through weakness, nausia, v...

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Michael Bay to quit making action movies, say it ain't so

Michael Bay to quit making action movies, say it ain't so So after too much shit from douchebags, Michael Bay was talking about hanging it up. Click here to read about that. I know this was a month ago but I wanted to see Transformers 2 before I gave my opinion on this. See what I thought of it here. Now let's take a look at his films and see if we can find a reason or two to keep the man around. ...

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The King is Dead! Long Live the King!

The King is Dead! Long Live the King! Michael Jackson "The King of Pop" has been declared dead at a hospital in L.A. after being brought there in a coma, but already rumors circulate that tell a different story. Only hours before Michael Jackson was declared dead he was sighted in New Mexico near a private space tourism launching pad. The King of Pop has long had legal and fi...